🎧 System of a Down - Spiders
Developing The Blog
One of the main things that I want to achieve from this blog is for it to remain as minimalist as possible. However, I also want for it to be easily navigable.
I realise that this combination is a bit of an oxymoron, as implementing the features I want are also very complex and probably go against the ethos of what I said in my opening post.
That said, I have added a few little QoL bits that I think actually make this feel like a blog and it gives me the chance to use one of my favourite things in Markdown - A table:
| Added | How it works |
|---|---|
| 🕐 Time to read | Will give you a rough estimation of how much of your time you’re about to waste |
| 🏷️ Tags | Will eventually lead you to similar entries |
| 📁 Categories | More for me - adds an emoji to the article card on the index page. |
| 🗺️ Navigation | Now there’s more than one post, you can go between them |
Learning how Liquid tags work has been interesting - making them work has been a bit of a challenge though. There are a few which haven’t really given me the output I was expecting – hopefully with a bit more tinkering I can implement them later.
Future additions
These are the things I currently have living in my head that I want to be able to bring to the blog. Time for another table! This one will be updated as I achieve what I want. Another way of holding myself acountable to myself.
| Feature | Function | The expected outcome | Done? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🏷️ Tags | Linked | Tags will be linked, and take you to a page with all those posts on. | ✅ |
| 📁 Categories | Linked | At the moment I just want this to show an indication of what category the post is filled under. | ❌ |
| 🔍 Search Box | Search for Posts | Using things like keywords, and a combination of tags and categories - take you to a post collection. | ✅ |
| 📷 Open-Graph Images | Auto-Generated | Create a script that will generate og images for each post. | ✅ |
You can tell I write documentation. I love a table!
All of these things are easily achievable, but require a bit more time and research into how to get them to work for me.
It’s been a fun 24hrs playing with all these little things. I’ve made changes to the CSS to make it all fit better with the overall theme of the site - which is important!
I’m going to take a few days away from it and think of what I want to do next. I should probably also make an entry about the whole learning journey I am currently on – it is the reason I made this blog after all!
Good day.